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Originally Posted by Trollheart
Thing is, Mondo is a good writer. This can just be a case of getting lost within the narrative. I've done it, especially when regressing a character through memories and you forget where it all began, kind of hard to find your way back to the "present". It happens in conversations too, if you forgot a character is narrating something that happened and you're writing in the present tense. But as I say, once you read it over once you should see the error and correct it. I just see this a lot in Mondo's writing (what I've seen of it) and I'm pointing it out so that he realises this is something he needs to get on top of. But yeah, I agree: if the writing looks sloppy it will stop you from reading it.
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This is the only relevant statement from your post. Yes, it is an easy mistake to make, but when somebody is actually reading your material it doesn't matter one iota how easy the mistake is, it just looks ****ty and makes the reader want to bail unless they're the kind of person who reads
Twilight. No matter how easy those glaring mistakes are to make they should be cut out like a cancer because any reader worth their salt will see it as cancer. Prose is not something that gets an award for "good enough", it simply has to be good or **** you.